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CAMELLIA JAPONICA EXIMIA. 
Chandler's Choice-flowering Camellia. 
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THE variety which, it appears, may be obtained from seed, of this 
beautiful tribe of plants, is almost endless. This is clearly proved by 
the number which have been added to our Collections during the last few 
years, from the successful exertions of several distinguished cultivators, 
among whom we may particularly notice the Hon. and Rev. William 
Herbert; Messrs. Chandler, of the Yauxhall Nursery ; and Mr. Joseph 
Knight, of the King’s Road. The difficulty now is, to make a judicious 
selection of such kinds only, as are of first-rate excellence, and worthy 
of being placed in the same class with those well-known and admired 
varieties, which have been imported from China. The present, we 
think, will be universally allowed to rank in this class, and, in our 
opinion, is not surpassed by any already belonging to it. We first saw it 
in flower in March last, in the extensive collection of Messrs. Chandler, 
Yauxhall, who raised it from seed in 1819- 
With its habit we are not sufficiently acquainted as to be able to 
speak with accuracy ; but, from what we have seen, we consider it to be 
of free growth, resembling, in some respects, the Waratih, from which 
it is believed to have been raised. A few years hence, when it shall 
have become more generally known, we have not the slightest doubt, 
but it will be found to possess obvious characters peculiar to itself, that 
will readily distinguish it from any of the other seedling varieties. 
The branches are erect, and of a pale brown colour. The leaves are 
large and flat, about four inches long, and two inches broad; ovate 
acuminate, sharply serrated, tapering towards the base and point, which 
is moderately long, narrow, and recurved. They are of a very deep 
shining green, similar to that of the War at ill, but more marked with 
pale-coloured veins on the upper side. The footstalks are round and 
slender, about an inch in length, and of a dull green colour, a little 
tinged with brown near the base of the leaf. 
